Management Recruiters of the St. Croix Valley

Quality Assurance Manager 

Looking for a great opportunity to apply your quality management experience with a growing manufacturer in Eastern Wisconsin?  Our client is looking for a proven quality expert with strong a process improvement background who can transform this operation to a world class level.

JOB DESCRIPTION

This position will provide you with the responsibilities of: 

• Working with customers to ensure pre-production quality requirements are understood and an internal plan is in place to manage quality standards of the product
• Providing quality performance data to shop floor and senior management employees – using the data to drive the continual improvement efforts
• Developing a strategic quality improvement plan and engaging all employees in quality improvement activities
• Working with the customers to ensure improvement efforts are addressing their biggest issues – continue to build the relationships
• Participating in the quoting process to ensure quality gauging and control plans are considered in the quote
• Managing the department budget, personnel and equipment needs
• Managing the ISO 9000:2001 quality system to ensure compliance through procedure updates, auditing and training
• Driving the corrective action process to ensure the short term issue is fixed and also drive long term systemic improvement – holding people accountable
• Providing training in quality systems for new and existing employees
• Overseeing day-to-day quality issues taking the appropriate corrective actions
• Develop and implement process control methods to improve capability
• Monitor and drive improvement with raw material suppliers 

JOB REQUIREMENTS

An excellent candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

• Bachelors degree preferred
• At LEAST 5 years in a Quality Management role
• ASQ certification desired
• 3-5 years minimum experience in the paper converting, printing or film industry
• Ability to develop a long range plan, budgets, personnel needs and capital needs
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, ISO standards and SQF standards
• Previous experience working with a union
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Ability to lead improvement teams 

This is a high profile position that is critical to the performance of the business and you will be a key player in achieving success.  Your success will position you for career growth. 

Interested?  Please apply on-line or send your resume to joy.notaro@mrstcroix.com.